Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-02
TALK AND WORK.
rnocEYDrsos OF rHg TWO HOUSES or
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Richmond Railway Connection AID Wharf
Company The Convict Question
New Business, &c.

The bills passed by the House on
Wednesday were communicated to the
Senate in the usual morning message
| from the clerk and were twice read, and
the majority Of them placed on the
| calendar.
BILLS REPoRTED PROM COMMITTEES.
To incorporate the Metropolitan
| Quick Transit Bridge Company 10 in
| corporate the Roanoke Street Railway
| Company, and to make valid the acts
| of said company under a charter here
tofore granted to it by the judge OF the
| Hastings Court of the city of Roanoke;
| TO make provision for the levying OF
| special tax for sinking-fund purposes
for the city Of Roanoke to incorporate
the Virginia Steel Company, with an
amendment to amend section s OF an
act approved February 8, 1886; to in
corporate the Morotock Manufacturing
| Company to amend, &c, an act to
| Incorporate the Southwest Virginia I'M
provement Company incorporating
the Sandy-River Mercantile and Manu-
featuring Company to amend section
| 2 of an act to incorporate the
Stock. Greek Coal and Iron Com
pany, approved March ~, 1891;
| to enable the circuit courts OF this Com
monwealth TO change the name, style,
and title of corporations to amend
section 2, chapter 200, Acts OF extra ses-
sion of 1884, to incorporate the town of
| Clifton Forge, in the county OF Ale
ghany to amend and re-enact sections
| "a and sc of the charter of the city OF
Richmond, with amendments to pro-
vide for bringing suits against receivers
| in certain cases to repeal section 4,
chapter $40, Acts of 1888 "a, providing
| for an eight weeks course of instruction
| for the colored teachers in the State
| to amend section 20, chapter 2O6, OF the
| Code of 1878, in relation to the organ
ization, government, and discipline OF
the penitentiary adversely !; to au-
thorlze the trustees of New London
Academy to lease said buildings
| to the county superintendent of
schools of Bedford and Camp
bell counties for school purposes;
to establish normal school at William
and Mary College in connection with
its collegiate course to amend an act
for the relief of school-teachers, ap-
proved February 16, 1885, to authorize
the Governor to furnish convict labor
for the construction of the Roanoke
and Southern railroad between the city
of Roanoke and some point i'll the
county of Henry on the line between
the States Of Virginia and North Caro-
lima, with amendments joint resolu-
tion requesting the Governor and At
torney-General to test the validity OF
certain contracts involving convict
labor, and to annul the same, with
substitute making this applicable only
10 contracts made prior to January /,
1856, for convicts to work inside the
penitentiary.
HIRE OF CoSyICTs.
Mr.. Stubs presented O preamble and
Joint resolution. which under the rules
lies over one day, authorizing the Gov
ernor of Virginia TO hire convicts to
the Richmond and Tidewater Railroad
Company. The company is to pay %
cents per day each for the convicts
hired, the State to bear the expenses.
JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES.
Mr.. Staples asked that the Commit
tee for Courts of Justice be relieved
from the further consideration Of the
bill to amend the law in regard to the
Jurisdiction of justices of the peace,
and that it be referred to the Commit
tee on Agriculture. Mining, and Manu-
featuring.
Mr.. Diggs, chairman of the Commit
tee for Courts of Justice, said that his
committee would have reported the bill
adversely, if at all, and thought it bet
ter not to cucumber the calendar with
bills which will not be passed.
Mr.. Staples thought it the duty Of
committee to report favorably or adj
versely on all matters referred TO it, and
insisted on his motion, which pre-
vailed.
BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
BY Mr.. Trout: To provide for new
registration of voters at Stock-Yard
precinct, in the county of Roanoke.
By Mr.. Keezell To authorize the
Auditor of Public Accounts, with the
advice of the Attorney General, to com
promise and settle claims of the Com
monwealth against the sureties of
Samuel r. Sterling, late treasurer OF
Rockingham county.
BY Mr.. Coltrane To incorporate the
Blue Ridge Mineral Company.
By Mr.. Keezell: To authorize and
empower the Board of Supervisors of
Rockingham county to allow certain
| compensation to the Overseers of the
poor of said county.
By Mr.. Ellyson !: To amend the char
ter of the City Bank of Richmond.
By Mr.. Flanary: To incorporate the
Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee Coal
and Mining Company.
BY same: TO authorize the trustees
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, at Templeton Westinghouse to
sell and convey the same.
| BY the same: To extend the time in
which mining and manufacturing COM
panies may organize or resume opera
tons.
By the same To declare Stony creek
| and its tributaries, and Stamber's
creek, in the county of Scott, public
highways.
BY Mr.. Thurman To define fence
law for Bedford county.
BY Mr.. Bib: To incorporate the
Sons and Daughters of the Golden
Chariot.
BY MIR. Mr.. Ellyson To prohibit
the use of pound-nets and purse-nets IN
| the waters of James river below tide
water.
BY Mr.. Causey: To incorporate the
Holy-Neck Lumber and Transportation
Company.
| RoUND-MoUNTAIN MINING AND MANUFAc-
TURING COMPANY.
Mr.. Hurt introduced a bill, which
was referred to the Committee on Agri-
culture, Mining, and Manufacturing,
to incorporate the Round Mountain
Mining and Manufacturing Company.
The corporatoIsare G. G. Holland, j. ID.
Blair, A. s. Buford. Hartman NewbeTy,
Joseph Stras, George W. Gillespie, J.
| Wilcox Brown, s. w. Williams, W. Il.
Peery, II. G. Anderson, James II. Young,
Robert l.. Harrison, A. ID. Shepard. The